A native of Northern Ireland, David Rice is author of six books, with a seventh due shortly. He has worked as a journalist on three continents. He has also been a Dominican friar. In the 1970s he was an editor and Sigma-Delta-Chi award-winning syndicated columnist in the United States, and returned to Ireland in 1980 to head the prestigious Rathmines School of Journalism. In 1989 he was invited to Beijing to train journalists on behalf of Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency, and to work as an editor with China Features. He was in Beijing during the massacre of Tiananmen Square, and later returned to interview secretly 400 of the young people who had survived the massacre. This led to two books, Dragon’s Brood and the novel Song of Tiananmen Square, which was read for a full week on RTE's High Noon.  His books have been published in Britain, Ireland, Germany and the United States. David Rice’s No.1 best-selling Shattered Vows led to the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary, Priests of Passion, which he  presented. He now lives in Killaloe, Co Clare, has taught Writing Skills at the University of Limerick, and directs the highly successful Killaloe Hedge-School of Writing, which presents weekend writing workshops for beginners. His latest thriller, The Pompeii Syndrome,  faces the possibility of  Islamist terrorists  hijacking a British Airways plane out of  Knock Airport, and flying it into a British nuclear plant, with catastrophic consequences for all of Europe. For published works by this author click here